Psalms 88:3
1 O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
- KJV
- For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
- WEB
- For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.
- ASV
- For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.
- DARBY
- For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.
- BLB
- For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has reached to Sheol.
- ÅB
- For min sjel er mett av ulykker, og mitt liv er kommet nær til dødsriket.
- OTB
- For min sjel er overveldet av problemer,
Og mitt liv nærmer seg Sheol. - B1930
- For min sjel er mett av ulykker, og mitt liv er kommet nær til dødsriket.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 107:18
Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
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He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Read in contextMark 14:33–34
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
Read in contextPsalms 69:17–21
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
Read in contextIsaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Read in contextMatthew 26:37–39
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
Read in contextPsalms 107:26
They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Read in contextJob 33:22
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
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